664 So. 2d 968 - Zigman v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2013
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 571 So. 2d 422 - Goldschmidt v. Holman · 577 So. 2d 1321 - Smith v. Jack Eckerd Corp. · 620 So. 2d 757 - BOARD OF COUNTY COMM'RS v. Sawyer · 608 So. 2d 833 - Marinelli v. Grace · Auster v. Strax Breast Cancer Institute
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the term `concurring' suggests that such causes of damage must occur `simultaneously,' it has been held that temporally preceding conditions can conjoin with a defendant's subsequent alleged negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The use of the instruction is best illustrated in cases involving premature infants, where it has been held that the fact of prematurity may unite with the alleged negligence of the physician or hospital in subsequent treatment to form the evidentiary basis for a 5.1(b) instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[u]nder any view of the case, it cannot be denied that the jury heard evidence of more than one cause of the plaintiff's injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.